Telephone-receiver handle.



Patented Oct. 4, 1910.

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O. A, BARNES, SE. TELEPHONE RECEIVER HANDLE.

APPLICATION II LED JUNE 3, 1910.

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CHARLES A. BARNES, SR., OF GREENFIELD, INDIANA.

TELEPHONE-RECEIVER HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 4, 1910.

Toall whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, CHARLES A. BARNES,

- Sr-., of Greenfield,-county of Hancock, and

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State of Indiana, have invented acertain new and usefulTelephone-Receiver Handle;

3 and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying The objectof this invention is to provide a-convenient, light, cheap, simply aplied and readily removable handle for telep one receivers adapted notonly to. support the receiver while the telephone is being used,

but also at all other times, and to that end it is so formed as to bereadily placed upon the telephone hook, whereby the hook supports thehandle and the handle supports the receiver.

The nature of the invention will be understood from the accompanyingdrawings and the'following description and claims.

View of a telephone. F i' 2 is an elevation of the receiver handle. ig.3 is a section on the li'ne'3-3 of'Fi 2'. Fig. 4 is a section on theline 44 0 .Fig; 2.

In detail 10 represents a telephone boxir'om the side of 'w ich theusual double end hook 11 projects adapted 'to sup ort a receiver 12which is connected eat the box by 'a cord 13.

The handle for the tele hone receiver consists of a singlepiece 0 metal,preferably sheet metal, folded substantially midway its ends to form acomparativel -.long cylindrical loop portion 15 adapte to surround thereceiver between its ends, as shown in Fi 1. This portion 15 may becalled the ho der of the receiver and from it the ends of the plate ofsheet metal )roject to form thc'handle portions 16; as s own in Fig. 2..The two handle portions 16 are continuations of the circular holder 15and the material is folded laterally to strengthen the handle and onemember thereof is. provided with :1 turned end to form a catch 17adapted to receive theend of the other member when they are s rungtogether, and thereby the-extreme on s of the two'members are heldtogether to form the handle. The two members of the handle 16 areseparated In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective the members of thehandle are laterally cut,

balancedon the handle not only while using the receiver, but while onthe telephone hook. In the latter position the handle extends betweenthetwo endsof-the' telephone hook while the circular holder 15 restshorizontally upon the twoends of thetelephone hook, as s iown in Fi 1.

Before the handle 1s placed upon the receiver the twoextreme endsthereof are separated ands rung apart far enough to enable the circu arholder 15 to be. rcadily receiver. Then the two members of -the handle16 are sprung together until their ends engage spring-like as has beenexplained. The. handle, when once put in place, neednotbe changed orremoved and lb'lS never in the way and alwaysextends rigidly from theholder .or telephone rcceivcr, and is, therefore, a very convenient anduseful article, chea to make and easy to place and use. The older 15 isonly of one thickness of metal and, therefore, is light and the handleis folded in two or more thicknesses so as to be strong.

-I claim as my invention:

1. A handle for a telephone receiver including a holder portion adaptedto embrace and hold a receiver between its ends and a handle portion ri'i'dly extending at'an angle therefrom and ailapted to be insertedvertically between the ends of a telcphonelmok, whereby the handle willbe supported on the hook and the receiver supported horizontally by thehandle while the latter is on the bent about midway its ends so 'as toprovide Maggi:

at one end a circular holder for the tele- In witness whereof, I havehereunto afphone receiver and handle members en'tend fixed my signaturein the presence of the ing from the sides of said holder at a rightwitnesses herein named. angle, the extreme end of one of said handleCHARLES A. BARNES,'SR.

5 members havim a spring catch adapted to \Vitnesses: receive and 110 dthe extreme end of the G. H. BOINK, other handle member. J. H. WELLS.

